In THE Top 100 University Rankings for BRICS Countries and Other Emerging Economies (2015), India's top institutes only rank 25 or higher. Research based on SciVal*, presented at the 2015 ISC, shows that Indian institutes would benefit significantly from stronger collaborations, either internationally or between academia and industry.

Some key findings include:
Academic - corporate collaborations are shown to have a very strong, positive influence on citation impact: 5 x for IIS, 3-12 x for IITs, and 14 x for India overall.
Impact of international collaboration is very positive: 1.5-4 FWCI for the highest ranked institute, IIS (ranks #25), with a significant jump in citation impact for collaborations with Cambridge (x2), UC Berkeley and Harvard (x3), Ohio State (x4).
Panjab University, is the highest ranked Indian university (ranks #39), benefitting strongly from its international collaboration in high-energy physics.
For international articles from India, esp. India-EU and India-US there is steady growth: 50% in 5 years, and doubling forIndia-China but from low level.

Why are university rankings important? What variables influence university rankings? On which of these variables do Indian universities and research institutes perform well? On which points should they focus on to boost their overall position in the rankings next year?

During his presentation Dr. Kolman will zoom into the BRICS ranking results, using research data from Scopus to further analyse the research performance of Indian universities and research institutions. He would provide valuable insights on publication output, impact, the influence of international and corporate collaboration, patents, and compare results to universities from other BRICS countries.